72% chance of a view, in and out of it all day.
Cloud base sits about 19 m above the summit, so the top should stay under a ceiling rather than in it.
Forecast for Friday 16 October, built 2026-10-16 16:22 UTC and rebuilt twice a day. A high number is close to reliable, a low one is barely better than a shrug: how reliable is this?
The hill
- Lists
- Wainwright, Birkett, Fellranger
- Height
- 581 m (120 m of drop)
- Area
- North Western Fells
- County
- Cumberland, England
- Grid ref
- NY206197
- OS Landranger
- 89, 90
- Summit
- no feature: ground by stone
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:43 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:12 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.48 hours
About Ard Crags
Ard Crags is a fell in the Lake District in Cumbria, England, it is situated in the Newlands Valley just off the minor road between Keswick and Buttermere. The Ordnance Survey officially records the fell's altitude at 581 metres (1,906 ft), considerably more than the approximate 1,860 feet (570 m) that Alfred Wainwright attributed to it in his Pictorial Guide to the North Western Fells, published in 1964 well before the advent of satellite mapping. Ard Crags is situated close to other higher fells such as Causey Pike and Eel Crag and can be easily overlooked. However, viewed from certain points in the Rigg Beck or Newlands valley area it presents a clearly defined and pyramidal shape which catches the eye.
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 64% | 521 m | 5.3° | 15 WNW |
| 08:00 | 68% | 508 m | 5.0° | 17 WNW |
| 10:00 | 60% | 566 m | 5.5° | 16 WNW |
| 12:00 | 57% | 600 m | 5.7° | 14 WNW |
| 14:00 | 82% | 800 m | 5.9° | 19 WNW |
| 16:00 | 76% | 868 m | 6.2° | 18 WNW |
| 18:00 | 77% | 733 m | 5.8° | 16 NW |
| 20:00 | 94% | 586 m | 5.5° | 16 NW |
Nearby
Scar Crags · Sail · Knott Rigg · Crag Hill · Causey Pike · Outerside
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